CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



Bahia Blanca — Geology — Numerous gigantic extinct Quadrupeds — Recent Extinction 

 — Longevity of Species — Large animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation — 

 Southern Africa — Siberian Fossils — Two Species of Ostrich — Habits of Oven- 

 bird — Armadilloes — Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard — Hybernation of Animals — 

 Habits of Sea -Pen — Indian Wars and Massacres — Arrowhead — Antiquarian 

 Relic ....... Pages 85-110 



CHAPTER VI 



Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce — Sierra Ventana — Third Posta — Driving 

 Horses — Bolas — Partridges and Foxes — Features of the country — Long- 

 legged Plover — Teru-tero — Hail -storm — Natural enclosures in the Sierra 

 Tapalguen — Flesh of Puma — Meat diet — Guardia del Monte — Effects of 

 cattle on the Vegetation — Cardoon — Buenos Ayres — Corral where cattle are 

 slaughtered ....... 111-128 



CHAPTER Vn 



Excursion to St. Fe — Thistle Beds — Habits of the Bizcacha — Little Owl — Saline 

 streams — Level plains — Mastodon — St. Fe — Change in landscape — Geology 

 — Tooth of extinct Horse — Relation of the Fossil and recent Quadrupeds of 

 North and South America — Effects of a great drought — Parana — Habits of the 

 Jaguar — Scissor-beak — Kingfisher, Parrot, and Scissor- tail — Revoluti^iv^^^^Bu^nos 

 Ayres — State of Government ..... 129-150 



CHAPTER VHI 



Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento— Value of an Estancia — Cattle, how counted 

 — Singular breed of Oxen — Perforated pebbles — Shepherd - dogs — Horses 

 broken-in, Gauchos riding — Character of Inhabitants — Rio Plata — Flocks of 

 Butterflies — Aeronaut Spiders — Phosphorescence of the Sea — Port Desire — 

 Guanaco — Port St. Julian — Geology of Patagonia — Fossil gigantic Animal — 

 Types of Organisation constant — Change in the Zoology of America — Causes of 

 extinction . . . . . . . 1 51-186 



CHAPTER IX 



Santa Cruz — Expedition up the River — Indians — Immense streams of basaltic lava — 

 Fragments not transported by the river — Excavation of the valley — Condor, 

 habits of — Cordillera — Erratic boulders of great size — Indian relics — Return to 

 the ship — Falkland Islands — Wild horses, cattle, rabbits — Wolf-like fox — Fire 

 made of bones — Manner of hunting wild cattle — Geology — Streams of stones — 

 Scenes of violence— Penguin — Geese — Eggs of Doris — Compound animals 



187-214 



